{"id":10794,"date":"2020-08-07T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/ezekiel-23_1-31-copy\/"},"modified":"2020-08-02T16:29:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:29:56","slug":"ezekiel-23_32-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/ezekiel-23_32-49\/","title":{"rendered":"When Jesus Drank Your Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ezekiel 23:32-49\u00a0 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Ezekiel 23:32-49.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Ezekiel 23:32-35 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n32\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“This is what the Sovereign\u00a0LORD\u00a0says: “You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup large and deep; it will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
\n33\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of ruin and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
\n34\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You will drink it and drain it dry; you will dash it to pieces and tear your breasts. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign\u00a0LORD.
\n35\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Therefore this is what the Sovereign\u00a0LORD\u00a0says: Since you have forgotten me and thrust me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 32-35: \u00a0Earlier in verse 31, God says to the nation of Judah, \u201cYou have gone the way of your sister [Israel],\u00a0so I will put her\u00a0cup<\/em>\u00a0into your hand.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, because Judah put her hope in other nations instead of God, just as her \u201colder sister\u201d Israel did before her, Judah would suffer a similar fate as Israel: she would be controlled, held captive and shamed by the very nation that she idolized.\u00a0 Judah would drink the same cup of suffering that Israel drank.\u00a0\u00a0 Here in verses 32-35 God continues to speak using this cup imagery.\u00a0 Because Judah had forgotten God and thrust God behind her back (v35), Judah would bear the consequences of her sins by drinking a \u201ccup of ruin and desolation\u201d (v33), a cup that would bring her \u201cscorn and derision\u201d (v32).\u00a0 As \u201clarge and deep\u201d (v32) as this cup of suffering would be, Judah would \u201cdrink it and drain it dry\u201d (v34).<\/p>\n

Similarly, in exchange for all the times that we have forgotten God and thrust God behind our back, we deserved to drink a cup of suffering as well, the suffering of being separated forever from God.\u00a0 But Jesus came to drink that cup of suffering for us.\u00a0 It was not easy for Jesus to do. \u00a0At one point Jesus even prayed, \u201cMy Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me.\u201d (Matthew 26:39)\u00a0 But out of love for us and out of obedience to His Father, Jesus drank our cup of suffering, taking on the ruin, desolation, scorn and derision that were meant for us.\u00a0\u00a0It is only because Jesus drank our cup of suffering that now we get to \u201clift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord\u201d (Psalm 116:13).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ezekiel 23:36-49 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n36\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their detestable practices,
\n37\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.
\n38\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my Sabbaths.
\n39\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.
\n40\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“They even sent messengers for men who came from far away, and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, painted your eyes and put on your jewelry.
\n41\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and oil that belonged to me.
\n42\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“The noise of a carefree crowd was around her; Sabeans were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets on the arms of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads.
\n43\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.’
\n44\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah.
\n45\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.
\n46\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“This is what the Sovereign\u00a0LORD\u00a0says: Bring a mob against them and give them over to terror and plunder.
\n47\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
\n48\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“So I will put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you.
\n49\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign\u00a0LORD.”
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\nVerses 36-49:\u00a0 God commands Ezekiel to confront\u00a0Oholah (symbolizing Israel) and Oholibah (symbolizing Judah)\u00a0regarding their sins (\u201ctheir detestable practices\u201d \u2013 v36).\u00a0 These sins include:<\/p>\n